"Albi Cathedral & the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn" Lecture

The Center for Architecture

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The program will present Albi Cathedral and explore Louis Kahn's life-long fascination with and inspiration by the paradoxical ideal of thick-walled structures as givers of light. The lecture will focus on Kahn's trip to Europe in the summer of 1959 to attend the CIAM 11 conference in the Netherlands, after which he visited Albi and the nearby walled town of Carcassonne; as well as on the design by Kahn which was most directly related to this ideal of the light-giving walls: the Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia. This generative ideal in Kahn's work will also be explored through brief examinations of projects and built works including the Trenton Jewish Community Center Bath House, the University of Pennsylvania Medical Research Towers, the First Unitarian Church in Rochester, the Meeting House at Salk Institute, the Bangladesh National Capital at Dhaka, and the Exeter Library. The general theme of the lecture will be on the manner in which Kahn engaged history, not as a source of formal influence, but rather as an eternal yet living tradition in which he was deeply immersed, and out of which he forged appropriate spaces for our time.

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Schedule

November 25, 2008 from 17:30 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Louis I. Kahn

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